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->"Nothing can get your mind prepared for ''Traxx'' -- unnamed characters are beaten to death during musical montages of cookie burning and line dancing. It's a clinically psychopathic film with fart jokes. I guess the rushed screenwriter didn't have time to create burned-cookie jokes ''and'' a context for all these slayings before the window on Shadoe Stevens' celebrity closed."
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Wendell calls Palucci to make clear he has no intention of opposing Traxx:
-->"A man possessed of extraordinary combative skills arrived in our tranquil hamlet this past evening and proceeded to decimate a substantial portion of the working criminal population. Myself? I am buying a ticket out of town. This is a courtesy call to provide information and say, "Adios, motherfuckers!" ''(slams phone receiver)''
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'''''Traxx''''' is a 1988 American comedy film that's a parody of the ActionGenre.

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'''''Traxx''''' is a 1988 American comedy film starring Shadoe Stevens and Creator/RobertDavi that's a parody of the ActionGenre.
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* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler: In the climax, Traxx distracts the Guziks by playing a news clip of a psychologists claiming that most killers and sociopaths have puny penises.]]

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* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler: In the climax, Traxx distracts the Guziks by playing a news clip of a psychologists psychologist claiming that most killers and sociopaths have puny penises.]]

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* FartsOnFire: [[spoiler:Panucci, the Big Bad, dies when he lights his cigar after letting out a giant fart, causing his car to explode.]]

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* FartsOnFire: [[spoiler:Panucci, [[spoiler:Palucci, the Big Bad, dies when he lights his cigar after letting out a giant fart, causing his car to explode.]]



* MoodWhiplash: The movie's tone is quite lopsided and swings between straight action and cartoonish humor with no segue whatsoever. It doesn't help (or does it?) that the intended humorous moments are often awkward and weird, while the action elements are mostly funny by dint of their sheer ridiculousness.



* PsychoForHire: Palucci hires the three Gulik brothers to kill Traxx, and they go on a killing and torturing spree to do so.

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* PsychoForHire: Palucci hires the three Gulik Guzik brothers to kill Traxx, and they go on a killing and torturing spree to do so.



* WouldHurtAChild: To show how AxCrazy the Guliks are, the film mentions that they once slaughtered an entire Little League team. [[spoiler:They kidnap another Little League team to lure Traxx out.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: To show how AxCrazy the Guliks Guziks are, the film mentions that they once slaughtered an entire Little League team. [[spoiler:They kidnap another Little League team to lure Traxx out.]]

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* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler:In the climax, Traxx distracts the Guziks by playing a news clip of a psychologists claiming that most killers and sociopaths have puny penises.]]

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* ShootTheTelevision: A shootout between Traxx and some bad guys is halted by a television news report on recent studies finding that "most overly aggressive, sociopathic males have tiny, little wazoos." The bad guys respond to this by shooting out the TV screen before returning to the gunfight.
* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler:In [[spoiler: In the climax, Traxx distracts the Guziks by playing a news clip of a psychologists claiming that most killers and sociopaths have puny penises.]]
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[[caption-width-right:183:Garbage you dump, trash you kill]]

'''''Traxx''''' is a 1988 American comedy film that's a parody of the ActionGenre.

Traxx is an international mercenary who has grown tired of his job. Desiring something else, he takes up the life of a baker. Running out of money, he decides to put his skills to use once more after being offered lots of cash by a city to clean up its streets. However, the local lowlifes aren't so compliant...
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* ActionPrologue: Traxx dealing with a HostageSituation involving a monkey.
* BigBad: Aldo Palucci, TheDon of Hadleyville.
* CasualDangerDialogue: Traxx has a leisurely stroll and chats with his friend about his baking aspirations ''as bombs are dropping around him''.
* CatchPhrase: Traxx has "Be good, be gone or be dead," his options for any criminals in the town he's trying to tame.
* CowboyCop: In his cop days, Traxx would toss his gun into bad guys' hands after they've given up, just to make it look justified when he gunned them down. He ends up getting fired for this.
* CrapsackWorld: Hadleyville, Texas is an over-the-top parody of the urban hellhole that was so common in '80's action movies. The streets are literally always full of crime, the cops brazenly refuse to do anything, the ones that do condone vigilante action and the apartments just randomly explode.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Traxx blasts a pimp out a several-story window.
* DragonTheirFeet: [[spoiler:Traxx goes after the Guziks right after their boss Palucci is dispatched.]]
* FartsOnFire: [[spoiler:Panucci, the Big Bad, dies when he lights his cigar after letting out a giant fart, causing his car to explode.]]
* HostageSituation: The first scene of the film is Traxx stopping a hostage situation where a monkey is the hostage.
* LethalChef: Despite his ambitions of cookie stardom, Traxx is an absolutely dreadful chef. He's particularly fond of disgusting combinations, such as tuna, crab and ''laxatives''.
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* PsychoForHire: Palucci hires the three Gulik brothers to kill Traxx, and they go on a killing and torturing spree to do so.
* TeenyWeenie: [[spoiler:In the climax, Traxx distracts the Guziks by playing a news clip of a psychologists claiming that most killers and sociopaths have puny penises.]]
* VigilanteMan: Traxx becomes a vigilante for hire, or "town tamer," in order to get money for his cookie business.
* WouldHurtAChild: To show how AxCrazy the Guliks are, the film mentions that they once slaughtered an entire Little League team. [[spoiler:They kidnap another Little League team to lure Traxx out.]]
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